Frustrated by a slow-moving lawsuit and aware this may be the last shot at keeping George Lucas from bolting for the West Coast, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration resorted Wednesday to a seldom-used legal maneuver to try to keep the movie mogul's museum project in the city. In a 219-page filing,...

Mellody Hobson isn't afraid of the race card. The African-American investment banker and wife of "Star Wars" creator George Lucas made that clear Tuesday when she enlisted "black and brown" children in the fight to build the Lucas Museum on Chicago's lakefront. According to Hobson, the drawn-out...

Friends of the Parks "have sufficiently pled that the proposed Museum is not for the benefit of the public but will impair public interest in the land and benefit the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art and promote private and/or commercial interests. ... Plaintiffs have plausibly stated a claim for...

The fate of the Lucas Museum project in Chicago was thrown into major doubt Tuesday after Friends of the Parks declared its opposition to any lakefront site, prompting the Lucas camp to announce that it was "seriously pursuing locations outside of Chicago." Juanita Irizarry, the parks group's executive...

The city of Chicago and the Chicago Park District filed a motion Monday requesting a 30-day stay in the court proceedings related to the original Lucas Museum proposal south of Soldier Field, saying the delay will allow time for continued exploration of the alternate McCormick Place site. Friends...

More than 50 African-American leaders of churches, businesses and community associations announced Tuesday they were forming a coalition to support the city's proposed plan to build the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art at McCormick Place. The group said replacing the convention center's Lakeside Center...

As controversy swirls around the latest plan for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, it's worth noting that filmmaker George Lucas and his wife, financial executive Mellody Hobson, already have sponsored a building in Chicago. And it happens to be good — much better than the flashy museum design,...

Famous architect Helmut Jahn on Thursday said movie mogul George Lucas is unlikely to compromise on the design of his proposed museum because people who pony up millions of dollars to build memorials to themselves aren't prone to giving in. "Generally, when people spend so much money to set themselves...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration on Monday unveiled the details of its last-ditch plan to put "Star Wars" filmmaker George Lucas' museum along the lake, a lift so heavy the mayor might have to learn to summon The Force to make it happen. Not only would Emanuel have to persuade state lawmakers...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel's last-ditch effort to keep the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Chicago comes at a cost: tearing down McCormick Place's Lakeside Center and its substantial exhibit space. Loss of the Lakeside Center would be a blow for some of the city's trade shows, notably the biennial International...